For much of Wednesday’s Veuve Clicquot Vintage Stakes it looked like Richard
Hannon’s appropriately named Olympic Glory would have to settle for the
outmoded ideal of those games 'it’s the taking part that counts’ as he
trailed the field struggling to cope with Goodwood’s right-hand turn.

Late flourish: Olympic Glory (red) swoops near the line to land the Veuve Cliquot Vintage Stakes at GoodwoodPhoto: GETTY IMAGES

Finally, well inside the final furlong with four of his rivals line abreast in front of him, Richard Hughes got the Choisir colt running and swooped in the shadow of the post to win by a cheeky half-length from Artigiano.

“There wasn’t one moment of that race that I enjoyed watching except for the last stride,” said Richard Hannon Jnr afterwards. “He didn’t turn well. All his work at home is left-handed and he’s only been straight on the a racecourse so we’ll bear that in mind for next time, which will probably be the Dewhurst.”

Hughes, who later did something similar on My Queenie in a handicap, admitted he had not meant to be that cool. “Turning for home I didn’t think I’d be in the first three. I had to wait for him, then he took off.”

Mark Johnston joined Sir Henry Cecil at the top of the trainer’s table with a double. Hurricane Higgins took the Goodwood Stakes and Sir Graham Wade the UBS Stakes. Hurricane Higgins only ran yesterday after failing a stalls test. This two-mile five-furlong handicap started without stalls.